56th Session of the UN Commission on Human Rights

BELGIUM STATEMENT
Delivered by Ms. Regina LOUF

My name is Regina Louf and I speak on behalf of the transnational radical party

· We have the right to be not believed as we talk about sexual abuse, in group and organised in Europe.
· We have the right to see how the press, politicians and our justice system laughs about our testimony. How they twist our words and make our testimony ridiculous.
· We have the right to see how the lawyers of the abusers are assisted by incompetent judges, burned out police officers and psychiatrists who just like to prove that children are easily lying.
· We have the right to be silent and to be happy because we - the children of Europe - have food and education. The abuse and terror, neglecting and sexual abuse is hidden well behind the walls of our homes and our country.
· We have the right to realise, although we have testified, our abusers can live again in our home, our street or neighbourhood. They are not punished because they are intelligent, successful adults and we are treated as children with an overdose of imagination.
· We have the right to see our pornographic photographs, taken by our abusers, are published on internet, all around the world, without a proper system to punish the ones who put it there - because the governments of Europe neglect the problem.
· We have the right to laugh and look normal, because otherwise the abusers torture our sister, friends or animals. If we alarm somebody, so they say, we are responsible for their torture and punishment. So we believe them, because we experienced the reality of their threats.
· We have the right to suffer invisibly and isolated in a war that only exists in the Philippines - where child prostitution is wide on the open. According to our politicians and justice system child prostitution is not visible - so not existing at all.
· We have the right to have no rights at all, because we have to survive under the threat of our intelligent and well adapted abusers - and if we have the courage to speak, no one helps us to protect us from our abusers.
· We have the right to be not heard by the judges in a courtroom. Children have no voice at all in our justice system.
· We have the right to feel guilty, because we didn't have the power to help other victims. They - from generation to generation - have no voice in the western society. Only the normal children, supported by their normal family have the chance to speak out and are shown to the world.
· We have the right to be confronted with little mistakes we made, like the colour of the car we were drove by night, when we get to a sex party. If we make one mistake, the police, judges and lawyers found our testimony worthless.
· We have the right to see the abusers can start all over again, how they are re-honoured or get free therapy - while we have to suffer and pay our therapy without any chance for recognition.
· We have the right to be treated with no respect for ourselves, our testimony and our trauma's, just like the way our judges and politicians treat child abuse, pornography and prostitution, as non existing, wild story's. Urban legends.

These are the rights that children of sex rings get in Belgium and Europe. Sometimes we see our abusers on television, just denying the fact that they abuse children in any way.
Sometimes we see and prove our police officers even falsify our testimony to show that sex rings don't exist and survivors only want attention.

· Fact : one on eight girls is sexually abused - one on ten boys is sexually abused.

I am one of them.

And even when my pimp admitted to the police his crimes against me - during the age of twelve till sixteen - one justice officer told the press in my country that I was the one to blame:
Because I had at twelve years old, almost a full grown and female body - and I was in love with the man who prostituted me.

My testimony is now used in Belgium to repress all other victims of organised child abuse.